When we initially started thinking about making MileStepper, we were looking for a tool that would let you combine many types of data on one page. For example, Google Sheets is great, but it becomes not great when you start to want images and rich media.

We pull down a lot of info from our retailer partners on gear data. A lot of it we use for the gear closet database, but we also try to keep an eye on pricing information. Eventually we’ll have some better gear shopping tools, but for now we are posting an internal tool we use.

Every day, we check the daily deals which contains gear that has had its price adjusted today. We check the markdown percentage and look at what it is, and if it is worthwhile, we let people know.

A couple issues were brought to our attention with the Sun & Moon, and other issues with metric conversions (adventure distance for the most part).

As a result, if you have your account set to metric units, you may want to check your adventure distance’s (KM) and see if it is accurate. It may have changed, sorry about that! If you set it now, it should stick.

Please keep bringing issues to our attention with regional bugs, it’s the only way we can make this great for everyone. Thanks for your support.

We fixed a pretty bad adventure date setting issue for anyone that is not in the eastern US. When we started this thing, it was just our local group putting up trips for each other. Now that the rest of the world is setting up trips, this issue was brought to our attention.

If you had issues with setting dates and having it show something a few hours off, it should be all fixed up now.

We send out a special thanks to everyone helping us out by reporting issues. Let us know, we’ll get it fixed!

We’ve been monitoring client side errors to make MileStepper .. less flaky .. and are seeing several on image uploads. The problem is that it is very hard for us to troubleshoot without having the source images.

If you encounter a failed upload, you can really help us out by attaching the file in an email to team@milestepper.com

We’re trying out some new updates to the main dashboard that lists all of your adventures. There are a few more features left to add, but things are looking so much better (in our opinion) that we decided to go ahead and put it up live for you to try out.

I’ve always laughed at the idea of standing in line before a store opened waiting on a big sale like on Black Friday. Yet there I was the other day, waiting outside my local REI for the start of the member’s only Garage Sale. It was a little before 9am and the store hadn’t opened yet as a group of about 20 people gathered.